Date
Mon 6 - Sun 12 April
Time
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Cost
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Free for Members
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Urban Retreat
Monday 6 – Sunday 12 April
Venue | Compassion Kadampa Meditation Centre, 2 Station Rd, South Gosforth NE3 1QD.
Guided Meditations on the Buddhist Path.
Drop in for individual sessions or attend the whole event. Retreat provides an opportunity to take spiritual teachings to heart, gain experience of meditation. and deepen our understanding and familiarity with essential practices of meditation and modern Buddhism.
Lamrim is a special set of instructions that includes all the essential teachings of Buddha. The retreat will be based on the 21 Lamrim meditations in the book The New Meditation Handbook
Everyone is welcome.
Each Session will contain:
1. chanted prayers (Prayers for Meditation except where a different puja is shown)
2. a short explanation of the Lamrim object
3. a guided 20 minute meditation
**Please note the weekend session times differ from those during the week days.**
Live streamed for members.
Teachers
This retreat is guided by the senior students of Compassion Centre and concludes on the Sunday with a one day retreat ‘A Glimpse into Reality – Meditations on Emptiness’ taught and guided by our Resident Teacher Gen Norden.
Schedule
Monday – 6th April
09:00 – 10:00 | Our Precious Human Life
11:00 – 12:00 | Death & Impermanence
17:00 – 18:15 | Dangers of Lower Rebirth & Refuge (with HJ)
19:00 – 20:00 | Actions and their Effects
Tuesday – 7th April
09:00 – 10:00 | Developing Renunciation – birth, ageing, sickness and death
11:00 – 12:00 | Developing Renunciation – remaining three
17:00 – 18:15 | Developing Renunciation – all 7 (with HJ)
19:00 – 20:00 | Developing Renunciation – all 7
Wednesday – 8th April
09:00 – 10:00 | Developing Equanimity
11:00 – 12:00 | Recognizing all living beings are our mothers
17:00 – 18:15 | Remembering the kindness of living beings (with HJ)
19:00 – 20:00 | Equalising self and others
Thursday – 9th April
09:00 – 10:00 | The disadvantages of self-cherishing
11:00 – 12:00 | The advantages of cherishing others
17:00 – 18:15 | Exchanging self with others (with HJ)
19:00 – 20:00 | Great Compassion
Friday- 10th April
09:00 – 10:00 | Taking
11:00 – 12:00 | Wishing love & Giving
17:00 – 18:30 | Offering to the Spiritual Guide
19:00 – 20:00 | Bodhichitta
Saturday – 11th April
10:00 – 11:00 | Tranquil Abiding on Bodhichitta
12:00 – 13:00 | Tranquil Abiding on Bodhichitta
14:00 – 15:00 | Tranquil Abiding on Bodhichitta
16:00 – 17:15 | Heart Jewel Prayers
Sunday – 12th April
The retreat concludes with a one day retreat ‘A Glimpse into Reality – Meditations on Emptiness’ taught and guided by our Resident Teacher Gen Norden
Cost & Booking
Cost
£30 | Full retreat, Non-member (*cost includes the one day retreat ‘A Glimpse into Reality - Meditations on Emptiness’ taught and guided by our Resident Teacher Gen Norden)
£8 | Per day, Non-member
£3 | Per session, Non-member
Free | Member
